Charity:Water

I just ~heart~  this week's sketch so much I had to make another layout for it. 

First, to remind you, the sketch:

And now the newest layout:

Hey, I used mist and paint this time!!!  (To see close ups of the shimmeriness and gloss of the elements and details, please see my blog.)

Now, I didn't just upload another of my layouts because I think I'm all that.  LOL!  I did it because this is a sneak preview of a challenge Sketchy Thursdays will be sponsoring this weekend on The Studio.

Our Design Team Member Amanda is sponsoring an AMAZING charity event all weekend long on her site The Studio.  The event benefits charity:water.

So, who is charity:water?  They are doing wonders in areas that don’t have what most of us take for granted - clean water.

Just think about it for a minute… imagine what it would be like to be without this necessity. Hard to imagine, isn’t it? It’s hard to imagine being without something that is always there. Something you never have to think or worry about. But a lot of people do worry. One billion people do, in fact. They face every day without that life giving luxury that we throw around like, um, water.

Starting at 7pm (GMT - England) this Friday the 13th The Studio will be hosting a BIG scrapbooking event. It will last for 48 hours and there will be games, challenges, special guests and PRIZES! A new challenge will be posted every 2 hours for the whole weekend!

There will be a prize for each and every challenge they post over the weekend and a prize for the overall winner of the event!

And there's an unbelievable grand finale: Cathy Zielske will be setting the final challenge!!!!

For a while now Cathy Z has used her online voice to reach the thousands of scrapbookers who frequent her website and started this pretty cool campaign: Scrapbookers for clean water. Her campaign supports charity: water.

Diana and I just couldn't let this fantastic event get away without our contribution!  We will be sponsoring one of the challenges for a great prize!!!  I'm not going to tell you what the challenge is yet...you'll just have to tune in this weekend and participate to find out!!  (Just a little hint...my layout above.)

And how do you participate you ask? 



1. To sign up for the event click here. You need to register and then join the charity: water event to start the ball rolling. If you’re playing for fun, that’s all you need to do.


2. If you want to be in to win the prizes you need to make a donation. Whatever you can spare. They aren’t into pressure at all. There are 2 ways to donate, here on Cathy’s page OR here to The Studio's charity: water Paypal address. If you donate directly to Cathy’s page you MUST enter the following into the comments box: “My donation for thestudio.scrapbook-101.com charity: extravaganza” so they know you’ve donated and can include you in the prize drawings.

3. Once you’re signed up and have made your donation leave a comment on the wall in the event area letting them know that you’re ready to play! If you are unable to donate they’d still love to have you play along anyway but, sorry, the prizes will be off limits! There is a chat group set up here for you to start getting to know your fellow players!


4. Sit back and watch the fun unfold. The Studio is having prize giveaways leading up to the event and then the real excitement begins at 7pm (GMT - England) this Friday the13th!  It’s going to be fabulous!

Be sure to check out the list of sponsors that are donating for this wonderful event for this wonderful cause. It's a very impressive list!
 
We have a WONDERFUL group of Sketchy Players and hope to see each of you playing along this weekend!  
 
Talk to you tomorrow!!
 
- Heidi